Here are some random facts for you.
1. Kate Winslet did considerable underwater training for the 2022 movie “Avatar: The Way of Water”, to the point where she could hold her breath underwater up to SEVEN MINUTES AND 14 SECONDS.
Some Navy Seals never break three minutes.
2. There are size “A” and “B” batteries, they’re just rarely used in anything. They’re still occasionally used overseas for things like bicycle lamps, though.
3. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19, but you can’t make exact change for a dollar. And that’s the MAXIMUM amount of change you can have, without being able to make change for a dollar.
4. Shakespeare became rich by hoarding grain and then selling it for ridiculous prices during a famine. Then he used THAT money to run a money lending business, and he was once charged with tax evasion.
5. The reason we capitalize the letter “I” is because writers in the 13th and 14th centuries thought the lowercase “i” looked too weak for what it represented.
(Extra / Wikipedia / Stock Exchange / The Independent / New York Times)